Elsie Goodwin, midwife, Hixon

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Date:1932 - 1935 (c.)

Description:Elsie Goodwin (left)was born at 11 Chapel lane, Burslem in 1908. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in 1930-1931, and then as a midwife.

After qualifying she worked as a midwife and health visitor in the Tipton and Dudley Port district of the Black Country. In 1934 she moved to Rose Cottage, Hixon, and worked around Stowe-by-Chartley, Weston, Sandon and Hixon, and later around Rocester, Denstone and Stubwood. She travelled by bicycle.

She gave up her work when she married, becoming Elsie Morris, in January 1939.

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